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Strikes and scores
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) voted Tuesday to end its seven-day-old strike, and the teachers were back in the schools yesterday. The strike, at the nation’s third largest school district, received...
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Teacher supply and demand
Education Week recently published an article about the overproduction of elementary school teachers in the nation. The article included data from a handful of states, showing the most recent annual...
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Rankings mania
This is a big week for college rankings. Earlier in the week, U.S. News & World Report released the 2014 edition (yes, it is only March of 2013) of its Best Graduate School rankings. The new...
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Teaching interns in the Windy City
This week I had the opportunity to meet with our 35 student teaching interns who are working in the Chicago Public Schools, and to visit their schools and classrooms. This is the sixth cohort of...
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So you want to hire a teacher?
Last Monday, the MSU Career Services office, in conjunction with the College of Education, held its annual Teacher and Administrator Recruitment Fair at Spartan Stadium. Almost all of our student...
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The skinny on the NCTQ Teacher Prep Review
The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a Washington-based think tank, issued its long-awaited Teacher Prep Review report yesterday. For education schools around the country, that is not...
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Painting with a mile-wide brush
It is not unusual to find broad generalizations made in the media, writers characterizing groups or organizations that are in reality quite diverse as being monolithic. But one does not expect to see...
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Teacher bashing 101
The New York Times has published an op-ed column titled “How I helped teachers cheat.” It was written by Dave Tomar, a self-professed “academic ghostwriter,” whose job was to work for an online...
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A wake-up call on teacher selection
We recently received the results of our students’ performance on the Michigan Department of Education’s Professional Readiness Examination (PRE). The department requires students to pass all three...
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NCTQ is at it again
I wrote earlier this year about the review of teacher preparation conducted by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ). In that post I described many of the methodological problems in the...
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#1 for 20 years in a row
This morning U.S. News & World Report issued its rankings of the nation’s best graduate schools in a number of disciplines, including education. I wrote in detail last year about these rankings,...
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MSU interns teaching in Chicago schools
This week I was in Chicago for my annual visit with Michigan State University interns working in Chicago Public Schools (CPS). I look forward to this trip every year, because it is a great...
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Help wanted
Last week we held our annual Teacher and Administrator Recruitment Fair at Spartan Stadium, and once again, we hosted over 130 school districts from around the world who came to recruit graduates of...
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NCTQ misses the goal again
Originally I was going to title this post “NCTQ fumbles the ball again,” but since it is World Cup season I decided to go with something a little more timely. No matter how you phrase it, however,...
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Back to school . . .
The Magic School Bus (Scholastic, Inc.) It’s back-to-school time for approximately 55 million children and 20 million college students around the country. For those of us who are educators, it’s an...
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“Easy A’s” gets an F
I have written in the past about problems with reports on the teacher preparation industry issued by the National Council on Teacher Quality (see here and here, for example). In order to keep its...
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Talent management, part 1
Today is March 3rd, which means I missed my goal of having at least one blog post each month. Of course, if February were a more ordinary month rather than being stunted in its growth, today might be...
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The state of teacher education in our nation
The Journal of Teacher Education recently solicited from me and other deans of colleges of education the answers to a series of question regarding the state of teacher education in the country. JTE...
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